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Laurie Lynn Drummond
Assistant Professor
Fiction541-346-0510
lauried@uoregon.edu
www.lauriedrummond.comB.G.S, English; M.F.A., Creative Writing, Louisiana State University. Laurie's short story collection, Anything You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You (HarperCollins 2004) was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and won the Jesse James Award in Fiction for Best Book from the Texas Institute of Letters, as well as the Violet Crown Award in Fiction from the Writers' League of Texas. A story from the collection, "Something About a Scar," won an Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Laurie's stories and essays have been published in Story, Southern Review, Fiction, Black Warrior Review, New Virginia Review, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and River Teeth, among others, and translated into Farsi for Golestaneh: Iranian Cultural & Arts Monthly. Additional honors include an AWP Intro Award in Fiction, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, three fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Ucross residency. She is working on a novel, The Heart Lies Plain, also for HarperCollins, and a book-length memoir, Losing My Gun.
For 2006-2007, Laurie will teach a graduate fiction workshop, a graduate seminar on the memoir, and undergraduate nonfiction workshops.
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Phone: (541) 346-3944
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